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Yes, extracting a tarball (one of the tar.bz2 files) is the best way to run an OHRRPGCE version without installing it system wide. You can also pess Numpad + instead of regular + to add a map layer in the map layers menu. Or if that doesn't work, go into tilemap edit mode and press alt and a number ...

(Oh, so I read this here. On the RPGC website it was also mentioned that Orchard went back to Indonesia, though it wasn't clear if he disappeared or stopped working on games after that. He's credited for work on Saturated Dreamers, but that's been in production for over 10 years.) In other news, I j...

Why do you want to use an OPL emulator to convert MIDI to OGG? You want it to sound similar to the original BAMs? There are a number of different OPL2/3 emulators out there, but it seems most of them got forked from a different project. This page lists several of them: https://zdoom.org/wiki/OPL_syn...

I miss authentic BAM playback too, but adding a proper OPL synthesizer rather than translating to MIDI instead of doing other stuff is going to be hard to justify.
I think I would rather work on a DOS port of the engine, and that might actually be easier :)

(Whoops, my first reply attempt got lost) Cool, and another nice minigame. You really have this game packed full of entertaining things. So, how are you going to promote teamwork while using the hero's special abilities? What do you mean by that? I think that it's hard to prevent special abilities f...

Looking at the gif, I misunderstood the thing Foxley reported as something new and serious. Actually it's been that way forever. Fixed now.

In the absence of last minute bugs, I guess we'll have to relegate further fixes to Etheldreme+1 :)

Also, you can still make name suggestions for the F release!

Zoinks, this is the greatest boss-bashing minigame! Even the placeholder graphics are nice :)

Oh crap, it's been three weeks since I last promised to do something. Umm...

Wow, there's an awful lot of data sucked into NESHA.DAT, even your calendar! Is your birthday in mid-February? And hobgoblin day is Jan 18th??? I was just scanning some .rpg files, and found that there's a lot of garbage in the tile animation patterns in old games, including 13 of the animation patt...

Ah yes, Memoria does contain those global text strings. That seems to prove that it was either originally created even before FUABMXv1, or it was copied from some ancient version of Wandering Hamster. The garbage text in SoJ is somewhat different, that's due to uninitialised data inside existing rec...

Cool, is this getting somewhere! Lack of NPC-NPC collision doesn't look terrible; the biggest thing missing is NPC activation. Aside from a command to do zone checking, I guess it might make sense to have one for moving with collision checking too... put probably it should just be a script anyone ca...

Indeed, here's some more :) http://tmc.castleparadox.com/pics/walldrawing.gif Notice that to draw/remove whole wall blocks I held down Ctrl. Maybe I should add a setting to control which type of drawing is the default. Hmm, or I could just have two different tools (this one could be called the line ...

Really? It seems that all those extra global text strings (which eventually became experience, etc) were removed totally, not just repurposed, in the earliest existing OHR games. I guess that means that the game you were playing was even earlier than those.

Let's say you import a second master palette. The command to switch to that master palette is:
If only the UI colours are different, the "update palette" is actually optional.

There are two: the scrollbar is broken, and 'Back' is the wrong colour.

I misdocumented the skew keys. It's actually CTRL+SHIFT+arrows. Good catch. It's mostly fine. I've had one problem but I don't think it's anything more than a fluke. One time while testing a game I attempted to exit via that exit button in the upper part of the window, but nothing happened. Tried al...